Ogrody twórczości, wyobraźni, myśli

Author(s): Dariusz Rymar / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The first part of the book presents three main themes which, as a whole, are intended to bea framework for more specific descriptions in its second part. In the first chapter, entitled Realgardens against the myths, the author shows selected examples of landscape designs and discusses theirutilitarian functions, their role in the religious cult, the mythical, symbolic and metaphorical contextswhich have directly affected either programme assumptions of the gardens or a treatment of certainfeatures of the landscape. The cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome are discussedin these respects. The author addresses the intellectual foundation of English and sentimentalgardens to clarify their strong ties with the ancient understanding of the landscape, describing onthis background meaningful features of Arcadia park near Nieborów. The chapter concludes witha discussion of selected solutions in Little Sparta — a garden founded by Sue and Ian Hamilton Finlaynear Edinburgh, Scotland. The second chapter, entitled Gardens of Imagination, discusses literarydescriptions, abstracted from specific landscape implementations. Several examples of literaturefrom different historical periods are invoked, with an emphasis on the role of sensuality. The authoranalyzes the fragments of the Egyptian Book of Gates, the epic of Gilgamesh, the Bible, Divine Comedyof Dante Alighieri, Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil. The third chapter, entitled The gardensof thought, raises general epistemological issues, first: in terms of the philosophical proposals forovercoming the fear of death, and second: in terms of theory of art viewed from the perspective of thetwentieth-century crisis of the great narrations.The common theme of all the chapters is the Garden of Eden, whose main intentional “function”is to overcome the fear of death. This issue is discussed in the context of eschatological, agnostic,and nihilistic intuitions, organized according to their relationship with specific gardens (Chapter 1),with the literary themes (Chapter 2), and finally with the abstract contemplation on the conditionof mankind and its representation in contemporary art (Chapter 3). Such a structure, inspired byHegel’s description of the history of the Absolute, makes it easier to present the problems of gardensfrom various perspectives — specific relations with nature, aesthetic experience and thought of purelyintellectual character. This approach, on the one hand, serves the clarity of argument by avoidingexcessive complexity of description, and on the other, shows the complexity of the concept of “garden”,resulting from the build-up of different meanings over the millennia.

Ogrody twórczości, wyobraźni, myśli

Author(s): Ewa Linkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Bio…

Author(s): Aleksandra Giełdoń-Paszek / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

A spectacular beginning of bio-art is ascribed to Eduardo Kac’s transgenic experimen GFP Bunny(2000). Since then, in art bio there have been distinguished number of trends, such as: a transgenic art, a microbial art, an agar art. A separate section of bio-art is the work with cells and tissue culture (in vitro). All trends are characterized by the work on unstable materials, the so-called wet media/ wetware, an ephemeral, a processuality, interactivity and the use of highly advanced technologies such as atransgenesis, neuropsychology and robotics. The biological world also inspires designers, builders and architects. The source of inspiration is mainly the physiology of living organisms, their structure and construction.In the bio art there also has appeared a critical movement. It deals with the problem of the relation between science and living organisms, the fight against commerce, the protection of life at each level. This results in a reevaluation of the relationship between humans and other species, which implies a departure from anthropocentrism. A critical aspect of this art is also a question about humans’ right to control their own evolution, to create new forms of life outside the natural order of living. On the one hand, bio art raises concerns, but on the other, it evokes a sense of the inevitability of transformation, of which we are witnesses. It is also heterogeneous in its ideological mssage. It questions the paradigm of the relationship between nature and culture, emphasizing morphism, liquidity and relativity of existing divisions, but it is involved in technology and a praise progress. Especialy dangerous aspect of bio-art is associated with biohacking and bioterrorism.

Fotomedializm Natalii LL — przestrzeń natury (ogród) w fotograficznym metatekście

Author(s): Karolina Tomczak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The text examines multi-faceted formal and meaning-related relationships in photo-media projectsby Natalia LL: performances such as Points of Support (Punkty podparcia), the Eagle constellation (1978) and the Pyramid (1979), which present the artist against the background of a broader nature. They bring up several important issues related to the innovativeness of a neo-avant-garde photograph of Wroclaw of the 1970s, i.e. permanent art and isomorphism that implement a conceptual metatextuality of a given work, post-manuality breaking with the modernist paradigm of art, multimedia nature, incorporating a performance, film and verbal text into the medium of photography used in an unusual way, the issue of a creative use of the nature-garden theme in experimental activities. As referred in the article the photo-media art by Natalia LL shows the artist as a deconstructing creator, a contemporary Eve who arranges the space of nature in a demiurgical way, arranging her feminine body in an artistic sign — and thus creates her self-reflexive and feminist compositions. At the same time, the text focuses on the pioneering nature and perversity of this art, as Natalia LL provocativelytoys with the archetypal nature-garden, keeps a modernist individualism and longing for metaphysics,ironic ambiguity, and humour of a simple message.

MUZIKA I KULTURNI KONTEKST (specifičnosti promjene konteksta kroz historijske stilske muzičke periode)

Author(s): Indira Meškić / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

From the eighteenth to the twenty-first century music, music art and music culture can be fully placed into the cultural context as a content available to anyone who wants to consume it. Although, even before that period of time, music was available in specific ways to art lover.

Piękno, sztuka i elementy edukacji estetycznej w pismach polskich neotomistów dwudziestolecia międzywojennego

Author(s): Janina Kostkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In the neo‑scholastic perspective, beauty is construed as the property of being and a feature of reality and human production, including art. It could be found in people’s ways of being and cultural heritage under the name of harmony, perfection or brilliance. The study of beauty is subject to the basic principles of the study of metaphysics. Beauty is an important factor in the development of identity: it uplifts and ennobles. The love of beauty includes rest, respite necessary for the human development. Art itself, not bound by the virtue of prudence, does not aim at improving the human subject, but it is concerned with the work of art itself. It is precisely because of this fact that the neo‑ Scholasticists perceive a conflict between morality and art; that danger, however, can be avoided if the artist is endowed with their own ethic, which contributes to an unwitting creation of ethical works. Art is without a doubt extremely important for the functioning of society and therefore should fulfill its social obligation through aesthetics education and making beauty, truth and goodness available to people from all walks of life.

Muzyka Szymanowskiego w dialogu intertekstualnym

Author(s): Bogumiła Mika / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The author approaches the works of Karol Szymanowski—treated both as a subject and as an object—in an intertextual dialogue within the field of music. The article begins with a quick overview of intertextuality as a concept. The main aim of the article is to highlight the intertextual references to Szymanowski’s music. Those references, according to the author, are of a twofold nature: they can be either found in the works of Szymanowski themselves, through quotations, borrowings and styling his music after other composers (the subjective aspect), or they can be traced to works of other 20th‑century composers, who referred toSzymanowski’s oeuvre in their own music (the objective aspect). This analysis, in turn, leads to the conclusion that a lively dialogue between various texts of music constitutes a guarantee of the pleasure which comes from listening as well as an indisputable value in the domain of art.

Methodical Sonatas by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) and Their Contribution to Contemporary Instrumental Music Teaching

Author(s): Karol Medňanský / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In the Baroque period of the 17th and 18th centuries, several excellent tractates that focused on the instrumental early music performance were printed. Alongside them, the published methodical early music was devoted to particular problems of instrumental performance. The example of that are Methodical Sonatas for Violin or Flute and Basso Continuo by Georg Philipp Telemann. They deal with quite a serious problem of ornamentation while drawing inspiration from the principles of the mixed – German style. Their methodical quality lies in the fact that the author writes their compositions in one line in the form the compositions are commonly written, while in the line beneath they add the recommended ways of ornamentation. In addition, they also serve as the methodical guide for a precise assignment of the period tempo at which the verbal expression had a different meaning than in the present time. In this sense we can benefit from the tractate by Johann Joachim Quantz entitled Attempt to Create Manual of Playing Diagonal Flute.

Засади етнохарактерності в творчості сучасних українських композиторів (на прикладі творів Є. Станковича, О. Яковчука та Г. Гаврилець)

Author(s): Iryna Nyskohuz / Language(s): Ukrainian Publication Year: 0

The article considers the implementation of ethnic features in works of modern Ukrainian composers: Yevhen Stankovych, Oleksandr Yakovchuk, Hanna Havrylets. This paper contains selected exemplary works of these composers whose works show the ethnic features very clearly.

Pieśń o stworzeniu – od zamysłu kompozytora do wykonania

Author(s): Karol Pyka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article describes the origin, content and message of the author’s own music score entitled The Song of Creation, whose core consists in the use of clay instruments in contemporary orchestration. The author discusses particular instances of the use of clay instruments as well as the provenance and the preparation of the piece for performance with regard to the conductor’s work.

Główne cechy artystycznego wykonania pieśni w aspekcie sztuki wokalnej – z doświadczeń własnych

Author(s): Alojzy Suchanek / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article constitutes an attempt at the broad issue of an artistic rendition of a song in the vocal aspect. The above ruminations allow to conclude that its sonic characteristics (tempo, dynamism, pitch and timbre) are consistent with the emotional content of speech and singing; hence, it is relatively easy to tune the voice to the content of speech and singing. The article emphasizes the process of selection of these elements, which can be of interest to all kinds of performers (soloists, conductors, choirs) in the process of their own artistic rendition of the song. All previous formulations or repeated statements have been drawn from practical application and that is the model to which they should return. It does not mean, therefore, that we should obey strict rules, but rather that we should carefully considerthe aforementioned issues.

Muzyka i dźwięk w grach komputerowych w kontekście wartości sztuki

Author(s): Paulina Bielesz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article focuses on sound and music in computer games in the context of the value of art and describes the development of sound production in video games. The text points to the similarities and differences between creating sound effects and music for the purposes of computer games design and for the purposes of the cinema. The text enumerates the elements of the soundtrack and describes the process of creating the particular layers of the soundtrack. Thus, the article constitutes a theoretical introduction to creating sound in video games and includes practical solutions. The author presents methods of composing music for this new medium. Moreover, the article includes samples of music created by students of Game and Virtual Space Design, the Sound in Games program.

Światło, dotyk i ślad. Wokół kilku obrazów Jagody Adamus

Author(s): Roman Maciuszkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article constitutes a reflection on the artistic endeavors of professor Jagoda Adamus. Her painterly search for beauty place the artist in the company of distinguished contemporary artists. Her paintings reveal a remarkable person—sensitive and subtle on the one hand, and decisive and brave on the other. As the author remarks, the painter conveys the meaning of the work of art in a calm, balanced way, venturing into the familiar territories of her artistic journeys.

Wokół Kół… Graficzne refleksje

Author(s): Adam Czech,Natalia Pawlus / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Since 2005, in Cieszyn, at the Department of Graphic Design at the Universityof Silesia, there have been two active Research and Art Circles. The Lithographers Research Circle Kurant and the Woodcutters Research Circle Deha have organized multiple exhibitions and graphic design workshops directed at high school students and students from other faculties. The members of the research circles usually arrive at their choice of topics on their own. Similarly, the choice of the template’s format and technique are dependent on and selected for the particular project. The students can improve their skills and learn how to incorporate the element of chance in their projects; they can experiment with color and incorporate the capabilities of graphic design software in their projects. They are aware of the existence and use of drawing techniques in print. They search for new drawing media. Their goal is to shape the artistic and academic life of students, developing not only their artistic butalso their interpersonal and organizational skills, as well as promoting themselves and the University. The members of Kurant and Deha are passionate, academically inclined people who know their goals and are open to new technologies. They treat their extracurricular activities like a journey, in which each stage constitutes a challenge on the road to self-fulfillment and search for beauty.

Pedagogický a estetický rozmer vnímania hudby

Author(s): Irena Medňanská / Language(s): Slovak Publication Year: 0

The hearing of sound is a natural physiological process of each healthy person. This process is not equivalent with the process of the perception of music. Listening to music is a complex psychological process which leads to aesthetic experiences in a sophisticated manner. The perception of music is the ability to receive, to distinguish the pitch of tones and to understand sound relations, which at the same time is applied in musical education and which influences ear training. This difference is just one of the elements of a multi-faceted structural phenomenon which is called perception of music. The term musical reception should be understood as the perception of dynamics, timbre, key, rhythmic, melodic and harmonic properties, intervals between tones and metric values. The role of a teacher of musicconsists in the selection of didactic methods and procedures in order to teach studentsto perceive music in the process of musical education.

Wartości uznawane i realizowane przez studentów Akademii Muzycznej w Łodzi

Author(s): Ewa Kumik / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Everyone acts according to one’s own system of evaluating and qualifying values, dependent on one’s personal way of perceiving reality. Which values we recognize as valid and prefer in everyday life has been predicated on out upbringing and what has been presented to us as good and morally right. In the following article, the author presents the results of a study she conducted among the students of the Academy of Music in Łódź, concerning the values they recognize as valid and apply in everyday life. In her analysis, the author refers also to selected works on the topic, discussing the issues of the hierarchy of values and psychological and social conditioning for the choice of particular values.

Start zawodowy nauczyciela przedmiotów muzycznych w szkole wyższej

Author(s): Monika Waligóra / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The initial stages of the teacher’s professional career have always invited a plethora of questions, emotions and curiosity. This issue has become, therefore, the subject of study of the author of the following article. The presented preliminary research on the beginnings of the teaching career of a music teacher at a university showed that it is an area of study which deserves more attention, vaguely established and lacking empirical verification. The overview of literature on the topic allowed to create a preliminary list of criteria determining the professional adaptation of the young teacher. Among them, the author enumerates the following: research potential, teaching potential and interpersonal potential. The analysisconcludes with a presentation of research findings and an announcement of the intention to further pursue the topic academically.

Uplatnenie regionálnych folklórnych tancov v hudobnej výchove

Author(s): Jana Hudáková / Language(s): Slovak Publication Year: 0

Folk dances utilised in education may foster the awareness of cultural heritage, dialogue with music and language and the ways of acquiring specific skills and developing musical capacity. The teaching of music with the incorporation of dance constitutes a complex of the components of studying in direct reference to the natural emotional and aesthetic experiences. This facilitates the development of numerous aspects of a child’s personality and enables them to express themselves by means of music.

Vzdělávání žákyně s Aspergerovým syndromem v předmětu hudební výchova na základní škole

Author(s): Jiří Mazurek / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

This case study is a contribution to contemporary inclusive tendencies of the Czech educational system. The author´s intention is to present on a particular case the possibilities of inclusive education of girl with one of the autism spectrum disorders – with a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome. Special attention is paid to music education and its possibilities.

Bajka terapeutyczna Tajna misja Bombika i jej realizacja słowno‑muzyczna

Author(s): Aleksandra Zeman / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The author approaches the topic of interdisciplinary studies in the Institute of Music at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Silesia, located in Cieszyn. The article constitutes a case study of a children’s radio play Bombik’s Secret Mission, written by Bogusław Zeman and adapted by Magdalena Micherda. Therapeutic stories provide assistance in the child’s development process. Thanks to them, the listeners can, for example, learn how to cope with the difficulties of quotidian life. Such choice of worthwhile listening material can be regarded as an investment in their future. Interdisciplinary classes, which combine various fields of study, including literature, pedagogy, theater and music, constitute an important part of a comprehensive curriculum for the students.